Nancy Spero
Rina Banerjee
Mother gathered Three or no more dirty black stones, tossed them to sky that could break what had hardened her ground and without frown or flirt of flower father like grease or butter slipped aside to free her from forty and some more grown men who held her as housewife like plant life with three or no more daughters, 2017
Acrylic on two wood panels with sequin fabric collage
80 x 40 x 2 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Hosfelt Gallery
Photographer: Bob.
Aviv Benn
I See Your Lost Days, 2022
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Aviv Benn
Stream of Your Tears Ends in My Anxious Heart, 2023
Oil and spray paint on canvas
50 x 50 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Louise Bonnet
Untitled, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
14 x 17 inches
Courtesy of Private Collection
Louise Bourgeois
Untitled, 1950
Ink on paper
14 x 11 inches, paper
22 x 18 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Courtesy of Private Collection
Photographer: Bob.
Caitlin Cherry
Immolation, 2022
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and The Hole
Photographer: Arturo Sanchez
Emma Cousin
Sole Charge, 2023
Oil on canvas
67 x 47 1/4 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Niru Ratnam Gallery, London
Photographer: Tim Bowditch
Emma Cousin
Powering Through Tiredness, 2023
Watercolor and pen on paper
12 x 8 1/4 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Niru Ratnam Gallery, London
Photographer: Bob.
Elizabeth Glaessner
Medusa, 2023
Oil on linen
36 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and P•P•O•W, New York
Photographer: JSP Art Photography
Katya Grokhovsky
Un-intended, 2017
Marker, ink, coffee, and oil pastel on braille paper
11 x 11 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Payton Harris-Woodard
Black Fury, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 38 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Maryam Hoseini
Of Flesh and Three Hearts (No.II), 2023
Acrylic, oil, pencil and ink on panel
78 x 44 1 1/2 inches
Courtesy the Artist and Hales, London and New York.
Photographer: JSP Art Photography.
Hayv Kahraman
Eight Bends, 2020
Oil, dried pigment on panel
80 x 80 x 2 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Barbara Kendrick
Offering, 2020
Digital collage, archival giclée prints
15 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Barbara Kendrick
On the Town, 2021
Digital collage, archival giclée prints
20 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Maria Lassnig
Die Verankerung, 1972
Color pen and pencil drawing
24 x 17 3/8 inches
Courtesy of Petzel Gallery, Private Collection, New York
MJ Lounsberry
Between Two Campfires, 2023
Oil on canvas
46 x 42 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
MJ Lounsberry
Trumpet at Night, 2023
Oil on canvas
42 x 46 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Wangechi Mutu
Howl, 2006
Archival pigment print with screen print
35 x 24 inches, image size
42 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Edition 23 of 40
Courtesy of the collection of Dr. Daniel S. Berger
Wangechi Mutu
Twin Rivalry, 2011
Collage and mixed media on found medical illustration
11.75 x 8 inches
21.75 x 17 inches, framed
Courtesy of the collection of Dr. Daniel S. Berger
Gladys Nilsson
Balanced, 2021
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper
30 x 22 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Gladys Nilsson
Carefull Stepping, 2021
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
30 x 22 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Gladys Nilsson
Smoothy, 2021
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper
30 1/4 x 23 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Christina Quarles
Fer Awhile, 2019
Ink on paper
13 x 19 inches
Courtesy of the collection of Marilyn and Larry Fields
Christina Ramberg
Head-vase, 1974
Acrylic on masonite
11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Courtesy of Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago, IL
Celeste Rapone
Girl's Girl, 2018
Oil on canvas
34 x 30 inches
Courtesy of Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Karen Seapker
Slow Sow, 2023
Oil on canvas
26 x 29.75 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Karen Seapker
The Sower, 2020
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Tschabalala Self
Black Face with Streaked Wig (red and black), 2020
Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print
36 x 28 inches, paper
45 x 31 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Courtesy of the collection of Marilyn and Larry Fields
Cindy Sherman
Untitled, 1987
Chromogenic color print
45 x 30 inches (image)
Edition 2 of 6, 1AP
Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photographer: Bob.
Nancy Spero
Normal Love, 1974
Handprinting and collage on paper
8.75 x 9.5 inches
Courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Nicola Tyson
The Disconnect, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 100 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Petzel, New York
Photographer: Jason Mandella
Robin F. Williams
Abject Terror (Ripley), 2023
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and P•P•O•W, New York
Photographer: Bob
Caleb Yono
Inter Dimensional Femmes/ pharmakeia/pansies/angelic contortion, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
24 x 19 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Caleb Yono
Inter Dimensional Femmes/ pharmakeia/violet/angelic contortion, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
24 x 19 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Caleb Yono
Interdimensional femmes / rescue of the Vivian girls/ finger fire, 2023
Lightfast color pencil on cotton rag paper
50 x 38 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Photographer: Bob.
Mary Lou Zelazny
The Cake Lady and Mrs. Columbus Welcome Candy, 2023
Acrylic, collage, oil on canvas
54 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Mary Lou Zelazny
Waking Somersault, 2018
Acrylic, collage, wax on panel
12 x 12 inches
16.5 x 16.5 inches, framed
Courtesy of the Artist and Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Photographer: Bob.
Rina Banerjee, Aviv Benn, Louise Bonnet, Louise Bourgeois, Caitlin Cherry, Emma Cousin, Elizabeth Glaessner, Katya Grokhovsky, Payton Harris-Woodard, Maryam Hoseini, Hayv Kahraman, Barbara Kendrick, Maria Lassnig, MJ Lounsberry, Wangechi Mutu, Gladys Nilsson, Christina Quarles, Christina Ramberg, Celeste Rapone, Karen Seapker, Tschabalala Self, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Nicola Tyson, Robin F. Williams, Caleb Yono, Mary Lou Zelazny
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present Women on the Verge, curated by Lisa Wainwright. The exhibition includes works by 27 artists and examines the prevalence in painting today of eccentric sendups of women by those who identify as women. With the hearty return of figurative painting in the last decade, it seems timely to take the pulse of a facet of feminist expression that currently lampoons the female body. Wrestling with the grand tradition of the bather and the reclining nude in art history, these distorted and contorted sisters are a convulsive response to the myriad pressures within a society on the verge of a nervous breakdown, as Pedro Almodóvar prophetically put it in his film of 1982. Such visual rhetorics speak to the concerns of those breaking the colonial gaze, or those queering representation, or those asserting a satirical engagement with heteronormative poses, or some intersection of all. Our current climate of judicial conservatism with the abolition of Roe v. Wade makes such images of torqued women all the more timely to assess.
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Lisa Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She served as Dean of Faculty for over ten years and in other major leadership roles including Dean of the Graduate Programs for five years. As a professor in the Department of Art History, Lisa has authored numerous articles in books and international professional journals, as well as developed an extensive list of exhibition catalogues, and curated multiple exhibitions. She has published and lectured on topics from Robert Rauschenberg and the history of the found object in art, to contemporary art and feminism, as well as on the subjects of education and creativity. Dr. Wainwright received her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and earned both a Masters and a PhD from the University of Illinois.